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Hi,
I've got a Power Mac G3 and I want to install linux onto it however I'm having some problems. Everyone says hold down C or Option to load a "Boot Manager" but when I turn my mac on nothing happens, I've tried everything including T for firewire mode but it just skips and starts tiger. The disk appears once tiger has loaded but I can't access the disk at boot up.
Weirdly though I was able to get something before when I did this. It was a question mark in a folder blinking which then disappeared 10s later. So I tried resetting the PRAM and that was successful but now the folder doesn't show up and i'm back to nothing.
What can I do to fix this?
I just need to be able to boot from the internal CD drive or preferably and external USB DVD drive.
Your help would be very much appreciated,
Sephers.